"There is a big debate how parallel computing may evolve over the next few years and unlock what appears to be an opportunity of dramatic computing horsepower. On the one side, there is Intel, which believes that the future are many-core x86 cGPU devices, scheduled to first debut with the Larrabee accelerator in the second half of 2009. On the other side, there is Nvidia which bets that GPUs could take over much more functionality in future PCs and accelerate applications through general purp

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else. The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN's domain names were restored within 20 minutes. However, because many Internet directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer.

Some small but significant details of the next major release of Windows have emerged via a presentation at the University of Illinois by Microsoft engineer Eric Traut. His presentation focuses on an internal project called "MinWin"; designed to optimise the Windows kernel to a minimum footprint, and for which will be the basis for the Windows 7 kernel.